By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Iraqi Basra crude cargoes in November have sold at the widest discounts to official prices in more than a year, with cargoes backed up after hurricanes hit the U.S. Gulf coast facing competition from Mexican crude, …

Argentina Star Tuesday 21st February, 2017
• U.S defense secretary also disagrees with Trump that the press is the enemy
• Trump told the CIA in January, "If we kept the oil, you probably wouldn’t have ISIS”
• Mattis is on his first trip to Iraq as …

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump told the CIA on Saturday that the so-called Islamic State probably would never have existed if the United States had seized Iraq’s oilfields, a claim that flies in the face of the analysis of most foreign policy experts …

Donald Trump says he wants to end long U.S. military entanglements. But he has also repeatedly said the U.S. should have seized Iraq’s oil after the 2003 invasion — an undertaking that would have been illegal, required decades of occupation by hundreds of …

Iraqi firefighters battle a large fire at oil wells in Qayara, Iraq, on Aug. 31, 2016. (AP)
Donald Trump repeated an eyebrow-raising idea this week that the United States should have kept Iraq’s oil after ousting Saddam Hussein.
"I’ve always said -- …